In celebration of its 20th anniversary, the Brandeis-Wellesley Orchestra will perform Beethoven, Symphony No. 9; and Hailstork, Fanfare on Amazing Grace. With the combined choruses of Brandeis University, Wellesley College and the Worcester Polytechnic Institute. Neal Hampton, director. Featured vocalists: Deborah Selig, soprano; Stephanie Kacoyanis, alto; Matthew Anderson, tenor; Daniel Brevik, bass. Sponsored by the Brandeis Department of Music.
Beethoven's Ninth Symphony is popularly known as ... view more »
In celebration of its 20th anniversary, the Brandeis-Wellesley Orchestra will perform Beethoven, Symphony No. 9; and Hailstork, Fanfare on Amazing Grace. With the combined choruses of Brandeis University, Wellesley College and the Worcester Polytechnic Institute. Neal Hampton, director. Featured vocalists: Deborah Selig, soprano; Stephanie Kacoyanis, alto; Matthew Anderson, tenor; Daniel Brevik, bass. Sponsored by the Brandeis Department of Music.
Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony is popularly known as the “Ode to Joy” symphony for its fourth movement, which sets parts of Schiller’s poem An Die Freude (Ode To Joy), which has as its theme the universal brotherhood of mankind.
Adolphus Hailstork (born in Rochester, New York in 1941) wrote Fanfare on Amazing Grace in 2003 for organ, an instrument he studied as a student at Howard University, and five years later orchestrated it for the Virginia Symphony Orchestra conducted by JoAnn Falletta, who premiered and recorded it in May 2011. The work was broadcast worldwide on January 20, 2021 as part of the music for the Inauguration of President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris.
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